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Posting here again because I know too many of my followers on tumblr personally...
One of my roommates told me today that she was going to move out after the lease was up this year. It makes sense because she's got the worst room out of all of ours; it's the smallest and the draftiest. She would be moving into a place where she could get her own room, bathroom, and stay warm. It's a practical choice, I'm pretty sure, because I don't think she particularly dislikes us and I rarely see her at the apartment anyway - but I can't help but feel a little sad. If I were her, I think I'd leave too in her situation, especially if I would be living with a bunch of people I probably spend more time with on a regular basis. Still, I can't help feeling that a part of it was my shortcoming as a friend and a roommate even though I know logically and rationally that is not the case.
It also brings up a lot of logistic issues because then we would need to find a new roommate to split the rent with because it would be much too expensive to just split it three ways. Finding a roommate is a struggle, but mostly it's an idea I have been entertaining that we should move out of the building anyway…the landlords are pretty bad at addressing issues like heating and tend to put bandages on problems rather than fixing them. The only plus seems to be their rent collection window is wide open. This place isn't particularly in a strategic spot and there's really nothing really tying me to the place beside the fact that I've been living in it for the past few months. I think there are probably better apartments that we could move in, as a three person place if we want to maintain familiar circumstances but then we would have to go apartment hunting again which was already a hassle the first time we did it…not to mention we would have to move all our shit to the new place.
Sigh!!
One of my roommates told me today that she was going to move out after the lease was up this year. It makes sense because she's got the worst room out of all of ours; it's the smallest and the draftiest. She would be moving into a place where she could get her own room, bathroom, and stay warm. It's a practical choice, I'm pretty sure, because I don't think she particularly dislikes us and I rarely see her at the apartment anyway - but I can't help but feel a little sad. If I were her, I think I'd leave too in her situation, especially if I would be living with a bunch of people I probably spend more time with on a regular basis. Still, I can't help feeling that a part of it was my shortcoming as a friend and a roommate even though I know logically and rationally that is not the case.
It also brings up a lot of logistic issues because then we would need to find a new roommate to split the rent with because it would be much too expensive to just split it three ways. Finding a roommate is a struggle, but mostly it's an idea I have been entertaining that we should move out of the building anyway…the landlords are pretty bad at addressing issues like heating and tend to put bandages on problems rather than fixing them. The only plus seems to be their rent collection window is wide open. This place isn't particularly in a strategic spot and there's really nothing really tying me to the place beside the fact that I've been living in it for the past few months. I think there are probably better apartments that we could move in, as a three person place if we want to maintain familiar circumstances but then we would have to go apartment hunting again which was already a hassle the first time we did it…not to mention we would have to move all our shit to the new place.
Sigh!!